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John Valdez

Belleville,NJ

Summary

Motivated healthcare IT professional with a background as a Registered Nurse. Diverse professional experience in clinical informatics, healthcare operations, medical record review, case management, and critical care. Accustomed to conducting marketing strategies, quality improvement, and quality metrics in diverse settings such as physicians' offices, urgent cares, nursing facilities, and accountable care organizations.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Senior Medical Informaticist

Northwell Health
06.2024 - Current
  • Lead workgroups with clinical leadership and key stakeholders to develop effective workflows for Epic Go-Live.
  • Develop and modify Epic digital care tool clinical content.
  • Promote enterprise-wide clinical standardization to reduce variability in care delivery.
  • Serve as a resource to management during evaluation of related project proposals; utilizes knowledge of current inpatient and ambulatory information systems and associated data to leverage for proposed projects.

Clinical Informaticist (PRN)

RWJBarnabas Health
02.2022 - Current
  • Participates in the planning, development, implementation, upgrading, maintenance, and evaluation of clinical information systems.
  • Maintains open communication among clinical user groups to determine issues or problem areas and facilitates resolutions.
  • Coordinates and provides for communication among users, IT, nursing, and other clinical services.

Senior Epic Analyst

New York-Presbyterian
12.2021 - 06.2024
  • Work closely with clinical and business users in the design, implementation, optimization, change management, and issue resolution related to the enterprise system.
  • Collaborate with appropriate technical and operational leaders from affiliated institutions such as Weill Cornell Medicine and Columbia University to improve clinical workflow and business processes.
  • Technically sound with Epic Application Build, Reporting and Device Integration.

Clinical Application Analyst

RWJBarnabas Health
12.2019 - 12.2021
  • Cerner DBA – Clinical Documentation, Orders, Order Sets, Rules, Alerts, CCL, SQL, HTML.
  • Case Management Informatics Specialist & Project Manager.
  • Applied clinical knowledge in design, development, implementation, validation, and maintenance of new and existing division and/or departmental databases.
  • Analyzed and improved clinical workflows for 8 Acute Care Hospitals.

Regional Case Manager/Nurse Liaison

Alaris Health Corporate
06.2017 - 12.2019
  • Lead Specialized Services Marketing & Business Development.
  • Maintained identified census & operational goals for 3 Dialysis Centers and 3 Ventilator Units.
  • Organized marketing initiatives to develop relationships with hospital social workers, physicians, hospital discharge planners and administrators.
  • Provide clinical assessment which includes cost factors forecasting the duration of stay and practicality of an assured discharge working with the center's interdisciplinary team to make the clinical determination according to capabilities.

Staff Nurse

Windsor Gardens Care Center
07.2016 - 11.2019
  • Implemented client's plan of care in long term, subacute, and ventilator units.
  • Managed admission paperwork and data collection.
  • Proficient with charting in Point Click Care.

CIGNA HEDIS RN Consultant (Temp)

AEROTEK
01.2017 - 03.2017
  • Evaluated medical records for quality improvement and HEDIS/GPRO Measures.
  • Field work with various Physicians, Urgent Cares, Nursing Facilities, and Hospital ACO such as Robert Wood Johnson and Atlantic Health Care.
  • Utilized various EHRs such as CERNER, IMS, GlaceEMR, EPIC, etc to efficiently capture data.

Emergency Room RN

Clara Maass Medical Center
11.2015 - 05.2016
  • IV Certification, BLS, ACLS, Telemetry Certification, Wound Care Certification.
  • Highly proficient clinical skills: Medicine Administrations, IV inserts, IV pushes, drips, 12-lead EKG, Cardiac monitoring, Transfusions, Phlebotomy, Ventilators, and Codes.
  • Ensured the quality of emergency medical nursing care to patients.
  • Effectively communicated with patients, doctors, and staff.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Nursing

Kean University
05.2017

Associates of Applied Science - Nursing

Bergen Community College
05.2015

Skills

  • Data Analytics
  • EHR Implementation
  • Data Visualization
  • Clinical Applications
  • SQL
  • R
  • Tableau
  • EHR systems – Epic, Cerner, Allscripts, Meditech, NextGen

Professional Licenses

  • New Jersey RN License, 26NR18296800
  • New York RN License, 776673

Certification

  • Ambulatory
  • Wisdom
  • Phoenix
  • Smartforms
  • Clinical Content Builder
  • Cognitive Computing Badge
  • Notecraft Builders Badge
  • Data Courier
  • ASAP (In Progress)
  • Cogito (In Progress)

Timeline

Senior Medical Informaticist

Northwell Health
06.2024 - Current

Clinical Informaticist (PRN)

RWJBarnabas Health
02.2022 - Current

Senior Epic Analyst

New York-Presbyterian
12.2021 - 06.2024

Clinical Application Analyst

RWJBarnabas Health
12.2019 - 12.2021

Regional Case Manager/Nurse Liaison

Alaris Health Corporate
06.2017 - 12.2019

CIGNA HEDIS RN Consultant (Temp)

AEROTEK
01.2017 - 03.2017

Staff Nurse

Windsor Gardens Care Center
07.2016 - 11.2019

Emergency Room RN

Clara Maass Medical Center
11.2015 - 05.2016

Bachelor of Science - Nursing

Kean University

Associates of Applied Science - Nursing

Bergen Community College